Category Archives: parody

Fair Use Week!

Posted on February 24, 2015 by rtushnet

The OTW supports Fair Use Week. And if you support fair use, why not support the OTW? Also, I enjoyed Laura Quilter’s post on the uses of parody. http://tushnet.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

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WIPIP, part 2, Session 3 Trademark

Posted on February 9, 2015 by rtushnet

Session 3, Trademark   Leah Chan Grinvald, Constructive Consent   Courts adopt as evidence of fame the number of users = strength = fame.  Example: the number of Flipboard users accepted by a court in October.  But that also is … Continue reading →

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Transformative work of the day

Posted on December 30, 2014 by rtushnet

Indiana Bones and the Raiders of the Lost Bark.  Via ST. http://tushnet.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

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Seen at the Spy Museum

Posted on December 29, 2014 by rtushnet

Matzohball, an Israel Bond thriller, a new adventure of Hebrew secret agent Oy-Oy-7, by Sol Weinstein, author of Loxfinger. http://tushnet.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

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Today in parody shirts

Posted on August 22, 2014 by rtushnet

I just acquired the Black Labour, White Guilt T-shirt from the Laugh It Off case, and I’m taking the opportunity to share some other parody shirts as well. Black Labour, White Guilt From my vacation: Spider-Moose, New Hampshire Then, continuing … Continue reading →

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Bike humor

Posted on November 27, 2013 by rtushnet

Via Bikearlington on Twitter.  Hardly-Davidson “Born to be Mild” strikes me as a pretty good parody. http://tushnet.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

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It’s a cookbook!

Posted on November 18, 2013 by rtushnet

50 Shades of Chicken.  (If you got the title of my post, you are my people.) http://tushnet.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

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